Adaptable Mind

The Growing Importance of Social Skills

In this paper, I show that the labor market increasingly rewards social skills. Since 1980, jobs with high social skill requirements have experienced greater relative growth throughout the wage distribution. Moreover, employment and wage growth has been strongest in jobs that
require high levels of both cognitive skill and social skill.

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